RobWhitehouse
- Producer
Rob Whitehouse began his producing career in style with The Scarecrow, the first Kiwi feature to win official invitation to the Cannes Film Festival. In tandem with late producing partner Lloyd Phillips, he brought Hollywood down under for Battletruck and big budget adventure Savage Islands, and made miniseries Heart of the High Country. Since then he has produced and financed films in the US, UK and beyond.
Screenography
Biography
Rob Whitehouse and Lloyd Phillips have a special place in Kiwi film history. With Battletruck (1982) and Savage Islands (1983), they were pioneers in successfully negotiating with American movie moguls to make films downunder. Though not the first case of Kiwi-US filmmaking collaboration — witness the Universal funded Under the Southern Cross, which dates back to the silent movie period — Savage Islands marks the first time New Zealanders managed to presell a movie to a Hollywood studio, before filming began.
Awards
2012 BAFTA Awards
Nominated for Best British Film: We Need to Talk about Kevin
2011 Cannes Film Festival
Nominated for Grand Prize, the Palme d'Or: We Need to Talk about Kevin
“I've been really lucky to be involved in some wonderful films, working with talented people around the world. All that started with those exciting days of the late 70s and early 80s in New Zealand.”